Fewer societal concerns with use, such as in agriculture; avoids antibiotic allergies

Natural products

Potential appeal to natural medicinals market

Relatively low cost

As drugs, reasonable production costs

Public perception

Public perception of use of phages as antibacterials seemingly is positive

1Advantages are as seen relative particularly to the use of chemical antibiotics as antibacterial agents.2Line break between upper and lower portions of list is indicative of what we feel are greater (upper) versus lesser (lower) advantages to phages as antibacterial drugs.3Ratio of drug dosage that gives rise to toxic effects to that which gives rise to efficacy. The larger the ratio, the safer the drug and/or the easier it is to work with.